Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Los Gatos-based delegation was among those greeting Marine Lance Cpl. Christopher Borges the evening of Friday, Dec. 16.
Los Gatos-based Operation Yellow Ribbon was at Mineta San Jose International Airport the evening of Friday, Dec. 16 to greet Marine Lance Cpl. Christopher Borges when he arrived home from Afghanistan after serving a 6½-month tour of duty. Among those welcoming the young San Jose soldier was Mike Frangadakis, chairman of Operation Yellow Ribbon, and an active member of the afternoon Los Gatos Rotary Club. Accompanying Frangadakis were Los Gatos residents Gary and Sue Plep. Also in attendance was Borges' mother, Rosalia Mestresset, a member of the South Bay Blue Star Moms. Ray Borges, father of the young soldier, said: "We want him to know how appreciated his service to our country is." Borges is among thousands of soldiers coming home …
Monday, November 21, 2011
Nonprofit Adopt-a-Chaplain organization is now headquartered in Los Gatos.
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Monday, November 21, 2011
Not every soldier thinks it’s important to have feminine hygiene products readily available, but to women who serve in the military overseas, those items are as precious as gold. And to Mike McNutt, well, it's just awful that any woman should have to think twice about it. So he takes personal responsibility to see to it that the Bay Area chapter of the Christian organization Adopt-a-Chaplain has plenty of those unmentionables to send out in its care packages. When McNutt, a Vietnam veteran, learned from an active duty female soldier that feminine products—pads and tampons—were in short supply at her base overseas, he marched into the nearest discount store, bought every package of pad and tampon on the shelf and took them to Adopt-a-…
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Operation Yellow Ribbon chairman Michael Frangadakis joins the state reserves in his late 50s.
Just after 9/11, Los Gatos Realtor Michael Frangadakis, 64, went to the U.S. Army recruiting office in San Jose and asked if there was anything an "old soldier from the '60s" could do to help the military as a civilian. A young buck sergeant gave the Vietnam War veteran a puzzled look and asked him his age. When he told him he was 54 years old, the sergeant and others in the room chuckled upon hearing that someone over the 42-age-limit wanted to join the reserves. "Needless to say, I walked out very embarrassed," remembers Frangadakis. But as the country went to war following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, Frangadakis wanted to do something to help the young men and women being deployed to the Middle East. In 2003, he started the…
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Middle Eastern religions don't espouse misogyny.
Los Gatos Patch would love your 300-word letters to the editor. The initial focus of the conversations in the Community Hearing on Post-9/11 Prejudices preview article posted Friday concerned women in fundamentalism. While misogyny, or “hatred of women,” is perhaps too strong a word to use, it would seem that women are to be subservient to men. This may not be the cornerstone, but it seems to have a pervasive presence. We have seen this play itself out in the Taliban of Afghanistan, where even the elementary education of girls is opposed. Such beliefs grow out of a certain selective reading of the Qu’ran. Whether this is a correct reading is a matter of controversy. One study registers this opinion: “ ... it is clear that in Islam ... …
Monday, July 4, 2011
List of Los Gatos, Monte Sereno soldiers serving in the Middle East grows every year, names to be read during Fourth of July festivities today.
The names listed in this article are of local military personnel serving or who have served in Iraq or Afghanistan. Their families are from Los Gatos and Monte Sereno and are sponsored by the Los Gatos Rotary Club, the Los Gatos Lions Club and Grateful Citizens. Every Fourth of July, town officials read the names during Los Gatos' day-long Independence Day celebration at the civic center and Los Gatos High School. According to local Realtor Michael Frangadakis, chairman of Operation Yellow Ribbon, the annual tradition shows respect for their sacrifices. This is considered the most poignant part of the festivities, which wind down for a moment at around 1:30 p.m. to have the audience gather in front of Los Gatos High School to say the …
Karen Daboll
12:43 pm on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
All of our active duty services and veterans deserve our support. Thank you for this story and for future stories about how they are doing and what opportunities there are for the community to show them we care. more ›